Martin Fleischmann

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Martin Fleischmann, FRS (born 1927, Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia) is an electrochemist at the University of Southampton. He is best known for his controversial work with his colleague Stanley Pons on cold fusion using palladium in the 1980s and '90s. He was also the first observer of what was later called Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering. [1] [2]

On March 23, 1989, while they were researchers at the University of Utah, he and Stanley Pons announced "N-Fusion" [3] which was quickly labeled by the press as cold fusion[4] -- a result previously thought to be unattainable. After a short period of public acclaim, the pair were attacked widely for sloppy, unreproducible research and inaccurate results, as Fleischmann predicted they would be.[5] Fleischmann, Pons and the researchers who replicated the effect remain convinced the effect is real, but sceptics who oppose them are convinced it is not.

In 1992, Fleischmann moved to France with Pons, to work at the IMRA laboratory (part of Technova Corporation, a subsidiary of Toyota). The pair parted ways in 1995, and Fleischmann returned to Southampton, where he remained as of 1999. He has recently co-authored papers with researchers from the U.S. Navy[6][7] and Italian national laboratories (INFN and ENEA).[8]

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  1. ^ Fleischmann, M.; PJ Hendra and AJ McQuillan. "Raman Spectra of Pyridine Adsorbed at a Silver Electrode". Chemical Physics Letters. 
  2. ^ Shelley, Tom (October, 2006). Tiny reflectors boost sensing a billion. Eureka. Retrieved on 2007-12-27.
  3. ^ http://www.newenergytimes.com/Reports/UniversityOfUtahPressRelease.htm
  4. ^ Fleischmann, M., S. Pons, and M. Hawkins, Electrochemically induced nuclear fusion of deuterium. J. Electroanal. Chem., 1989. 261: p. 301 and errata in Vol. 263.
  5. ^ Beaudette, C.G., Excess Heat. Why Cold Fusion Research Prevailed. 2000, Concord, NH: Oak Grove Press (Infinite Energy, Distributor).
  6. ^ Szpak, S., et al., Thermal behavior of polarized Pd/D electrodes prepared by co-deposition. Thermochim. Acta, 2004. 410: p. 101.
  7. ^ Mosier-Boss, P.A. and M. Fleischmann, Thermal and Nuclear Aspects of the Pd/D2O System, ed. S. Szpak and P.A. Mosier-Boss. Vol. 2. Simulation of the Electrochemical Cell (ICARUS) Calorimetry. 2002: SPAWAR Systems Center, San Diego, U.S. Navy.
  8. ^ Del Giudice, E., et al. Loading of H(D) in a Pd lattice. in The 9th International Conference on Cold Fusion, Condensed Matter Nuclear Science. 2002. Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China: Tsinghua Univ. Press.

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